The History Of The Rise, Progress And Accomplishment Of The Abolition Of The African Slave Trade By The British Parliament
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781419166419
Subjects: British & Irish history; Slavery; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which is more pleasing, than that of the correction or of the removal of any of the acknowledged evils of life; for while we rejoice to think that the sufferings of our fellow-creatures have been thus, in any instance, relieved, we must rejoice equally to think, that our own moral condition must have been necessarily improved by the change.